Imagine: you put the episode 3 disc in your computer. You install the game and you launch it.Then you start a new game. What do you think you will see for the coming 5 minutes?What do you hope to see first? Will it be the Gman, Alex or Labbie (the lab-coated vortiguant).Where will this all going to start? Mabye in a helicopter? Or in the local hospital? At a funeral?Do you think/hope it will start right in the action? Or with a conclusion of the previous episodes? Or will they start on the Lighter Note after such a dramatic ending?

video with elis dead at the final end of the intro. then the heli how it lands on a base in the icecold north. then setting up again, alyx tells gordon what he has to do, she goes another way/waits at the base and then gordon moves along, kicking combines asses through several, in the snow buried bases...

Gordon dies.And then you play as Alyx with a portal gun.And still in the first 5 minutes of the game, we learn that Gordon was actually his own father, after he went back in time and had sex with his mother. And the G-man is really just a social worker who's after him for child support.